Mary Ann

I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...

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Two Artists Withdraw From Smithsonian Symposium Nicholas Galanin and Margarita Cabrero said the decision to make the event private is a form of silencing participants amid Trump’s attacks on the institution.

“My work is only possible because of the ancestors who persisted and refused to be silenced; who continued to carry our culture and pass on that responsibility to me, to speak to a larger audience than was able to see or hear them.”

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Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history act.indivisible.org/sign/smithso... (Took this video when I visited Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture)

Scarsdale community calls for release of high school grad detained by ICE; rally set for Thursday Assemblywoman Amy Paulin has organized a prayer vigil and rally for Thursday evening at Chase Park in Scarsdale for 20-year-old Yeonsoo Go, who was detained by ICE after a routine visa hearing.

A woman who graduated from my high school was detained by ICE after a visa renewal hearing. She was transferred to Louisiana and now, according to this report, to parts unknown. Outrageous. abc7ny.com/post/scarsda...

Codex Bostonia

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Ghislaine Maxwell Is Not a Victim. She Is a Sexual Predator.

Excellent post by Mercedes Schneider: wp.me/p36Q2R-8Pa

It's not just Medicaid: The GOP cuts in Trump's reconciliation bill will also impact Medicare. app.sosha.ai/s/lpShXjCb
#medicaid #medicare #grimace #ishehavingastroke #knitsky #textilewaste

Trump's Medicaid cuts cause chaos

The whole health care system is at risk because of the Medicaid cuts in Trump's reconciliation bill. app.sosha.ai/s/97GlyUA9
#visiblemending #knitsky #medicaidcuts

So good! I'm downloading and getting ready to post💪

Ha! Natch.

Roza continues to pump out deceitful garbage because her work flatters the biases of the rich folks who fund her shoddy work. She's a charlatan.

And here's how they came out:
#greatjob #cotton #linen #upcycle #textilewaste #flowers

Last night, I invited some neighbors over to make Botanical Bandanas!

#upcycled #cotton #linen #textilewaste #flowers

I'm still waiting to hear where #ICE and #DOJ are taking all of the women and children they are disappearing off the streets. There isn't much mention of them, and that should be cause for alarm.

Sulphur cosmos, marigolds (from my dyer's garden), hibiscus, dried blueberries on linen.
#botanicalprinting #textilewaste #naturalfibers #naturaldye #summerflowers

Plant-dyed and botanically-printed cotton, silk, paper

#textilewaste #knitsky #freshcercle

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein: A Quiz 1. Were Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein friends? A. I don’t know. B. If by “friends” you mean that the two men partied together at Mar-a-Lago, tha...

"Greenland will be the fifty-first state. Coca-Cola will start using cane sugar. All UFC fights will be held on the White House Lawn. Trump’s new perfume is tremendous. He will be on Mount Rushmore by this time next year. And Canada will also be the fifty-first state."

There’s No Safe Place for Legal Immigrants in Trump’s America As Trump’s deportation gangs continue snatching people after scheduled court hearings, more are opting to stay home. But that comes with its own dangers.

If you're a legal immigrant with a court date, ICE is likely to pick you up after the hearing. If you don't go to the hearing, a judge can order ICE to pick you up.
Here's @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social with some great reporting on the Catch-22 Trump has made of our legal immigration system:

This is top tier!

Countdown Clock Begins for Giant Health Insurance Premium Increases In around 90 days, millions of Americans will learn about out-of-pocket cost hikes of more than 75 percent on average.

90 days. That's how long we have until close to 20 million households get notices that their health insurance is going up, way up, by an average of more than 75%.
Even those without ACA subsidies will see the raw cost of insurance up around 15%.
Expect a 4-alarm fire this fall. From me:

Omg yes

Courage and solidarity!

Sewing class, 1956, by Bert Hardy. Teacher at Ryder Brow Secondary School, Manchester, showing girls how to thread a sewing machine.

Kiitos!🪡✨

You're "just not that into politics?"
Your boss is.
Your landlord is.
Your insurance company is.
And every day they use their political power to keep your pay low, raise your rent, and deny you coverage.

It's time to get into politics.

#itsallpolitical #democracyorwhat #textilewaste #knitsky

As the EU develops new rules on #TextileWaste management, it must:

👕set Extended Producer Responsibility schemes that truly support receiving regions
👕tighten up the rules around the murky export trade
👕reduce the excessive oversupply of new #textiles produced every year in the first place

Cute!

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations “In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

"Just because I’m not on the keyboard—and you have to add two extra steps for me to appear correctly—I’m suddenly the product of some soulless technology?"